On Monday 31 December 2007 08:02, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-12-31 at 13:24 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote: > ... > > > > $man rsync > > ... > > I know that, but that's not what I want. I want compressed storage.
Rdiff-backup seems good. I've been using it (via Keep, which I _DO NOT_ recommend) and it has saved my butt once, in a big way. Because of Keep's problems, I also have over a year's worth of hourly snapshots of my project. (Thank good for capacious disk drives!) Keep's problems include: - Your scheduling options are ignored and it runs hourly - Your retention options are ignored and all backups are kept - The magnitude of the retained backups makes it impossible for Keep to perform a restore. - Several KDE programs, most notable KMail, are locked out of editing and sending during the period each hour when Keep (via one of the KDE low-level components) runs rdiff-backup. - Keep runs rdiff-backup at at point in the hour determined by when you logged in. - Keep doesn't run rdiff-backup when you're not logged in to KDE (maybe a good thing, maybe not). I'd schedule rdiff-backup some other way, probably cron. > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
